jessicas dad:
ive done it when the agency work was going well years ago, but like all else them days are long gone. i though howdens were run by dhl.
you beat me to it, as I see them back hauling along side us (DHL) out of kraft bicester, also a DHL site
scotstrucker:
i would suspect to get in to drive at that place you would have too know a driver there as drivers wouldnt leave and jobs would never be advertised for that sort of wages
It is a “dead mans shoes” job. The way you used to get in in the past was to do a couple of years there fulltime through the agency and then they’d take you on. At the moment they’ve had a fleet reduction and there’s nobody due to retire anytime soon so even though there’s four or so regular agency drivers there, they’re going to be there a fair bit longer than 2 years before they get a job.
M G b:
I was told the Howdens trucks are DHL. They load out of Bicester a lot and the guy in there told me.
The ones at the main factory I was at at Howden are their own wagons. The NDC and Runcorn are DHL and we used to trunk trailers to various DHL depots around the UK on nights for forward delivery by DHL the following day although their own wagons still do store deliveries during the day as well.
The ones you saw at Kraft would most likely be the ones from NDC at Northampton or from one of the many depots that we trunked trailers to.
Mind you, if you were to go into Howdens factory at Howden around midnight, you could be forgiven for thinking it was DHL with the amount of their motors in the place.
i can confirm the salary at howdens as i have been permanent since 2004,it is 35,500 for 56 hrs per week,32 days holidays,company sick scheme,and yearly bonus.
Totally believable, good firms pay good money and yes these jobs are not advertised very often.
We pay £500 in the bank for a working week - £300 in the bank for holidays
and our drivers still aren’t happy
cheers
Steve
gm:
We pay £500 in the bank for a working week - £300 in the bank for holidays
and our drivers still aren’t happy
cheers
Steve
Depending on what the working week comprises (ie 40 hours, no nights out) I wouldn’t be too impressed with that either.
PADDY40:
i can confirm the salary at howdens as i have been permanent since 2004,it is 35,500 for 56 hrs per week,32 days holidays,company sick scheme,and yearly bonus.
That sounds more like what our agency lads have been telling us,they said it is about £12 ph and it’s dead mans shoes,most good paying jobs are,our place has a waiting list for driving jobs and the last group we took on had been waiting around 2 years 
Well just so everyone knows…Sainsbury’s drivers at Basingstoke RDC are on 36k pa for 48hours a week…hence why I want a ■■■■■■■ job with them! Not to mention, one of the crimbo bank holidays, not sure which one, is 3x pay!
Adam_Mc:
Well just so everyone knows…Sainsbury’s drivers at Basingstoke RDC are on 36k pa for 48hours a week…hence why I want a [zb] job with them! Not to mention, one of the crimbo bank holidays, not sure which one, is 3x pay!
if you get one, i’ll fightcha for it. it’ll be worth a three hour commute.
mr bodd:
Adam_Mc:
Well just so everyone knows…Sainsbury’s drivers at Basingstoke RDC are on 36k pa for 48hours a week…hence why I want a [zb] job with them! Not to mention, one of the crimbo bank holidays, not sure which one, is 3x pay!if you get one, i’ll fightcha for it. it’ll be worth a three hour commute.
IF I get a job that is…I’m not getting my hopes up.
shuttlespanker:
scotstrucker:
newmercman:
Ben9:
newmercman:
Did he also tell you that next year we all got to have supermegatoptrotters with enough room for Peter Crouch to stand on tiptoe & that Eddie Stobart was being sold to Willi BetzWilli Betz you have heard different to me then I have it on good authority that is was LKW Walter buying them out.
Are you sure, I thought that was Norbert Dentressangle?
i heard on the grapevine that it could be dhl
you’re all wrong, it’s me
Stop telling lies, everybody knows it’s Innovate…
S’funny, my BS meter went off just reading the title of this post.
Im on a DHL contract and we’re on 27k for class 2. That’s four on four off though and starting at silly oclock in the am.
dairy crest £12 18ph plus dark money a extra £2 70ph plus rest day working overtime payed after 47 and ahalf hours no break stopped
Truckulent wouldnt get out of bed for that
gm:
We pay £500 in the bank for a working week - £300 in the bank for holidays
and our drivers still aren’t happy
cheers
Steve
Depends what the work entails though? If Sun-Fri/Sat out every night then yes its crap… If its a set day/night (8-10hours) home every day/night then its decent…
dustylfc:
Truckulent wouldnt get out of bed for that
Wonder if he’d get into one for it?
